County annual report · FIPS 38061
2020 Mountrail County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mountrail County, ND went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 3,419 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2766th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mountrail County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 28, 2020 03:00 | August 28, 2020 05:15 | 2h 15m | 941 | 275 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 03:30 | July 8, 2020 05:30 | 2h | 936 | 248 |
| 3 | June 30, 2020 15:45 | June 30, 2020 22:15 | 6h 30m | 221 | 1,437 |
| 4 | September 28, 2020 21:00 | September 28, 2020 22:15 | 1h 15m | 221 | 276 |
| 5 | October 7, 2020 21:15 | October 7, 2020 22:45 | 1h 30m | 221 | 332 |
| 6 | November 25, 2020 19:00 | November 25, 2020 20:45 | 1h 45m | 221 | 387 |
| 7 | September 22, 2020 10:45 | September 22, 2020 12:15 | 1h 30m | 187 | 102 |
| 8 | July 4, 2020 05:30 | July 4, 2020 11:30 | 6h | 114 | 103 |
| 9 | July 6, 2020 12:45 | July 6, 2020 21:15 | 8h 30m | 57 | 152 |
| 10 | October 9, 2020 20:15 | October 9, 2020 20:30 | 15m | 29 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Mountrail County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 49 min | 0.68 | 49 min | 0.68 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| McLean Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 66% of North Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,771 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Mountrail County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mountrail County, ND annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/north-dakota/mountrail-county